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FRICATIVE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
FRICATIVE. In PHONETICS , a vocal sound made by bringing...passive upper front teeth, and is a labiodental fricative CONSONANT . The /f/ and /v/ in five are the same kind of fricative; the first voiceless, the second voiced. Compare...
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SPEECH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...the resulting sound is a FRICATIVE /v/. In the case of an...the /z/ of zinc (a voiced fricative). When a stop is released...of narrowing which produces fricative noise. A PLOSIVE is released...x283;, dʒ/ fricatives /f, v; θ...
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G
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...for both a voiced and voiceless velar fricative. By the close of the Middle Ages, yogh...have kept the voiced palato-alveolar fricative value /3/, as in bourgeois this may...commonly a relic of a velar or palatal fricative that is preserved as a velar fricative...
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SCOUSE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...initially ( rabbit , run ), after stops and fricatives ( breathe , grass , three ), and between...initial and syllable-final positions, a fricative can follow a stop, as in ‘...for king (where /x/ represents the fricative in ScoE loch ), ‘me d/z...
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APPROXIMANT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...articulation more open than a stop or fricative, as in the /r/ of rink compared with...devoiced after a voiceless stop or a fricative (/r/ after /t/ as in trinket...devoicing produces noise similar to that of a fricative. The set of approximants includes LIQUIDS...
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CONSONANT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...Affricate tʃ,dʒ Fricative f, v ɵ, þ s...the other sounds because it is a FRICATIVE formed in the glottis. The grid shows that only obstruents ( STOP and fricative consonants) enter into the voiced...
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H
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...English, h represents a voiceless glottal fricative at the beginning of syllables before...but in ScoE and often in IrE is a velar fricative /x/. English in England may have silent...represent the Old English palatal or velar fricative previously often spelt 3 ( YOGH ), itself...
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WELSH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...is augmented from Welsh by the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative ɬ (spelt ll as in Llangollen ), the voiceless alveolar...x325;/ (spelt rh as in Rhyl ), and the voiceless velar fricative /x/ (spelt ch as in Pentyrch ). (10) In many parts of...
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SCOTTISH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...usage is the alveolar tap in some phonetic environments and a fricative or frictionless continuant in others. There is a minority...English. (7) ScoE retains from Scots the voiceless velar fricative /x/: for example, in such names as Brechin and MacLachlan...
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S
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...common pronunciations of s are voiced and unvoiced alveolar fricative consonants, as heard in his and hiss . In making the sound...treasure . This latter pair of sibilants are palato-alveolar fricative consonants. The sounds are made in a similar way to to those...
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